[Mailman-Developers] Architecture for extra profile info

[varun sharma]

+1 for this, i am desperately waiting for someone to do do this :)


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Terri Oda <terri at zone12.com> wrote:

> Background for folk new to this discussion:
>
> Currently, all user information is stored in Mailman core, but it's
> minimal: a real name, a set of email addresses, subscription info, and
> preferences.  Barry suggests that it should stay minimal: only the things
> Mailman needs to know to correctly deliver mail (which actually doesn't
> include "real name" but let's leave that as a legacy item for the moment)
>
> It's pretty likely that future features of Mailman will want to attach
> extra information to users.  Some of it will be social-y stuff like user
> icons for HyperKitty to display in the archives. Other things include
> metrics like "when did this person last post to the list?" or "how many
> posts have they made over the lifetime of this list?"  One thing I know of
> is that Systers requires a short essay for all new subscribers, explaining
> why they want to join the list.   (And they're considering porting this
> feature to Postorius, which means we potentially want an answer to "where
> will the extra profile data get stored?" before their students start
> coding.)
>
> So...
>
> I think we've sort of agreed that it would be best if whatever we built
> just had a rest interface and hyperkitty/postorius/whatever would talk to
> it through there, and could share data that way, but we need a simple
> prototype that folk (particularly students) will be able to start using,
> and there's still some internal architecture decisions that need to be made.
>
> Does anyone have time to build such a thing or write up some short
> architectural documents so a student could build such a thing in relatively
> short order?  It doesn't have to be the perfect final design, but we
> probably need a basic starter api for adding, accessing, editing and
> possibly even removing profile data.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>  Terri
>
>
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